The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 18
“What is the use of that?” thought Rikki-tikki.
Who acts: use · What happens: be, think · To what, where: use, Rikki · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 use | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tikki | punct |
| 13 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Rikki | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the use | of that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the use | Rikki | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rikki=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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